Abstract:
The objective of this research is to study the effect of pipeline transportation on two types of Sudanese crude oil (Nile blend and Dar blend).
A certain batch of crude oil was traced in the two cases three samples of Nile blend and two samples of Dar blend were taken from various stations in the two pipeline.
All test in this research were performed in Central Petroleum Laboratories (CPL), except the Infrared Spectroscopy wich was done in Sudan University.
After analysis of samples we found that some physical and chemical properties of the two blends have changed of as a result of transportation by pipeline, such as density, viscosity, flash point and acidity and in the concentration of some metal like Iron and Nickel.